Truth #5: Call Comcast to your house to set up the cable

Just because your cable is free and they give you a starter kit does not mean that it comes with instructions on the proper way to install it.

Yesterday I was given the task by husband to try to install the cable and to get the cable box "activated." I went and pulled out all of the items in the starter kit, but saw no directions at all as to how to install it. So, I did what anyone else would do (not really), I improvised and just started sticking random cords into the tv and the box. How hard could it be?

Apparently there are two different ways to activate a cable box: one way is to go online and to complete the process virtually and the other is to actually pick up a phone and call a number to speak with a representative.

As a child of the digital age, of course I went with option one, and  this option would save me from speaking on the phone to another human being. You see, Braden  and I both Hate Hate Hate talking to people on the the phone (we'll see how this works out for us . . . )

After several attempts of activating the box, and getting kicked out of the comcast page on several occasions because I had been "inactive" on it for 45 minutes or more (I got bored waiting for this thing!) I gave up and decided that this was a job for husband.

When Braden got home, same thing occurred, only this time he plugged all the cords in to what he tells me were the right places . . . After checking that everything is plugged in securely about 4 times, I tell Braden to call the comcast office. I of course know that he is dreading this, the act of calling a person on the phone, but I would rather he do it instead of me.

After a back and forth-- "no, you call it" "no, you call,"--we are still cable-less for now . . .